Motivational Quotes

Pain

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Pain

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

Marx, Karl

That which is escaped now is pain to come.

Proverb

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

Sterling, John

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

Dickinson, Emily

Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits -- which was exactly where they were supposed to be.

Marcinko, Richard

The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain the less defense and the less defense the less the gain.

Wyatt, Sir T.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Jung, Carl

Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Ellis, Havelock

Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.

Seneca

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Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

Tupper, Martin

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Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Weil, Simone

12.

Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing.

Robbins, Anthony

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Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.

Rogers, Will

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Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

Aeschylus

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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

Morrison, Toni

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And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be nor more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain. [Revelation]

Bible

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Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.

Johnson, Samuel

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All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The injuries we do and the injuries we suffer are seldom weighed on the same scales.

Aesop

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The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

Syrus, Publilius

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There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.

Bradley, Bill

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Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

Johnson, Samuel

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All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

Maistre, Joseph De

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We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Rohn, Jim

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Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.

Bryant, William C.

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Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!

Seneca

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There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

Eliot, George

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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

Selden, John

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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?

Rich, Adrienne

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There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

Weil, Simone

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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.

Thompson, Francis

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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

Byron, Lord

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Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.

Twain, Mark

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Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.

Syrus, Publilius

36.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

Lewis, C. S.

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Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

Sterne, Laurence

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The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

Woolf, Virginia

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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

Sade, Marquis De

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To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.

Terence

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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Pavese, Cesare

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To banish cares, scare away sorrow and soothe pain is the business of the poet and singer.